After Xue Fujiao said this, Gao Panlong also nodded: "Even so, it is still rare, throughout the ages, there is no emperor who can do not levy land taxes on the people." ”

"It's really Yao Shun who can't reach it, and no one will dare to say that the Wanli Dynasty will have a disaster for the country and the people in the future!"

Then.

Xue Fujiao also echoed: "What you didn't say is right! And since the imperial court has exempted the land tax, I have asked my family to continue to take the grange and hire people to cultivate it, and let them directly exempt the rent, and do not have to use it to start a workshop. ”

"Why is that?"

Gao Panlong asked.

Xue Fujiao said with a smile: "The imperial court exempts the land tax, which is nothing more than not wanting to waste the local farming, and to keep the agricultural capital!" ”

"That being the case, my Xue family should also respond to the call of the imperial court and continue to keep the farmland, instead of preferring to let him be abandoned rather than free rent, and sit back and watch no one come to tenant farming!"

"Anyway, these fields are in the countryside, and they can't be used as factories, so they can only grow grain or mulberry cotton, and in some places, even planting mulberry cotton will be disgusted and too far away from the town, so they simply give people rent-free planting."

Gao Panlong nodded after hearing this, and then couldn't help laughing:

"I really didn't expect that so many fields obtained by my ancestors through honest management would one day taste like chicken ribs even after the land tax was exempted, and they would need to be rent-free."

"yes!"

"I didn't expect Zhang Taiyue to really succeed in achieving Datong through His Majesty today."

Xue Fujiao said another sentence at this time, and then sighed: "If Uncle Gu is still alive, I don't know what kind of mood he will feel after seeing this scene?" ”

"Thankfully, he didn't see it."

"Otherwise, he will be even sadder."

Gao Panlong replied with mixed feelings in his heart.

Like Xue Fujiao and Gao Panlong, many landlords in the Ming Dynasty were bittersweet about the imperial court's exemption from land tax.

The joy is that the imperial court valued agriculture, and on the basis of the "light forced labor and thin taxation" advocated by Confucianism, it directly exempted the forced labor and land tax.

This is already beyond the Confucian ideal standard of prosperity, and it is already the result of the era of great harmony, and they do not admit that this is indeed the realization of the ideal of a sage.

The anger was that although the imperial court exempted the land tax, it increased the commercial tax, so that they did not get too much happiness from this thing that should be happy for all Confucian scholars, but only felt that they had lost money in economic interests.

But in any case, the exemption of land tax did make some landlords start to dispose of their fields by reducing or directly exempting them from rent, or even giving them to villagers cheaply, in order to earn some income through the land economy as much as possible, which indirectly led to an increase in the cultivated area.

At the same time, the exemption from land tax has also allowed many yeoman farmers to stay in their hometowns instead of going to the city to work or abandon farming.

Especially those old people who have been farming all their lives.

They are accustomed to hard work, and they are not willing to be idle, and they do not feel that their labor is valuable, and they can only do farm work and realize their value pursuit through the production of food, so most of them choose to continue to stay in their hometowns and continue to farm because of the exemption of land tax, and do not choose to abandon farming because of the field tax.

Especially for the Ming farmers who came from military households, because of the high welfare guarantee.

After the exemption of the land tax, they want to continue farming more than other homesteaders.

After all, for military households, there are few places to spend money, and farming is just a matter of increasing income through farming at present.

"Dad, you really don't want to go to the city with us?"

Gui Dacheng of Dongxiang County was on this day, on the ridge of his own field, and asked his old father who was digging the ground to return seven catties.

Gui Qijin said, "I'm not going!" I have to buy everything to eat when I go to the city, and now I don't pay the field tax, why should I go with good feet? Why don't you still be able to move and grow some food? ”

"In this way, I can also bring you some home-grown grains and fruits, and you can buy them with less money."

"Okay."

"But don't plant too much, don't be like last year, because Mrs. Zhang's field is going to be rent-free, so you go to tenant, and as a result, there is so much farm work that you don't have time to eat, and you have spleen and stomach problems."

Gui Dacheng is not good at talking to his old father, so he only told him a few words.

And Gui Qijin didn't say anything, just continued to dig his ground.

Gui Dacheng also returned to the city here, and when his wife Ming asked why his father still didn't come back to live in the city, he said:

"I'm afraid that when there is no one left in their generation, there will be no people who are willing to plant their hometown, not to mention that now the imperial court has exempted the field tax, so that those who were willing to come to the city are not willing to go."

After hearing this, Ming only nodded: "That's it!" ”

In fact.

The exemption of land tax by the imperial court not only allowed many peasant households who were originally in the countryside such as Gui Qijin to remain in the countryside to continue farming, but also allowed some people in the city who liked the pastoral life or the quiet life and even preferred self-cultivation and self-support to the commodity economy to rent land for farming or buy land for farming in the countryside.

In particular, some people who are literary and artistic in their hearts do not pay land taxes now, but they like this kind of life of self-cultivation and self-production.

In a word.

The exemption of land tax has indeed made many local citizens of the Ming Dynasty still willing to choose farming, and then saved a lot of cultivated land, but also slowed down the rate of degradation of cultivated land, and also made the domestic grain production in the case of technological improvement and cultivated land has not been degraded too fast, but the growth rate has begun to slow down.

Due to the slow increase in the domestic grain production of the Ming Dynasty, and the increasing number of overseas grains entering the Ming Dynasty, the local grain of the Ming Dynasty has always been in excess of demand, which has led to the fact that the grain price of the Wanli Dynasty is still not high.

In order to avoid the price of grain being too cheap, the Ming court would even deliberately buy some at a high price, and then resell them to overseas famine places, and make a lot of money.

Other than that.

Since the local food supply of Daming has always been in excess of demand, it has also promoted the progress of the food industry.

Wine, milk drinks, condiments and other fermentation factories appeared in large quantities, and even a lot of well-known food processing products, what famous wine and famous drinks sold well at home and abroad, and there were also cola, soda and other things, and were exported at higher prices.

This made many overseas aristocrats basically eat high-quality and high-end food and drinks imported from the Ming Dynasty.

Since the industries of the Ming Dynasty are basically in the country, especially the high-precision industries, there is no need to import many processed products from outside, only raw materials and slaves need to be imported.

As a result, many overseas businessmen began to continue to search for various minerals around the world.

Many Ming gold diggers who pursued overnight wealth also went crazy to the new continent to open up new mining sites, in order to make a fortune before being discovered by Jinyiwei.

As a result, there began to be adventurers from the Ming Dynasty who had crossed Papua New Guinea through the Luzon Islands, and then arrived in Australia, and used the firearms such as the wind-chasing gun they bought through various channels to force the natives here to become their slaves, and then let them mine here for themselves, and there were also folk gold diggers who went to Africa, and because of the large number of germs they brought, these natives disappeared in large numbers.

At the same time, the Ming royal partners in the north also continued to advance north and west.

There are royal partners who have reached the Kamchatka Peninsula and the Chukotka Peninsula in later generations, and have ventured across the Bering Strait in later generations to Alaska, and declared that this is also the private property of the Ming Emperor, and he is the only official who is ordered to rule here.

That's right.

Emperor Zhu Yijun of the Ming Dynasty granted the position of economic strategy officer to all contractors who contracted his royal private property, including Saibei Jingluo, Mobei Jingluo, Shuobei Jingluo and so on.

These officials belong to the Shaofu system and are managed by the Shaofu in a unified manner.

However, although they are all strategies, some of them are very vast because the emperor of Tiangao took the initiative to open up, and some are very narrow, but they are equivalent to a province in the mainland.

However, Zhong Changdong, the economic strategy officer in the area of the Yenisei River, had no way to expand at this time, and he was still surrounded by the army of the Rakshasa Kingdom.

But because Zhong Changdong and his officers and soldiers were all equipped with Ming rifled cannons and guns, and the city walls were made of concrete, plus there were arc lights that could illuminate the night like day, so the 50,000 troops of the Rakshasa Kingdom surrounded the Ming Yanming City for a year and ten months, and did not capture the Yanming City.

And in the early summer of the thirty-eighth year of Wanli.

When Li Rusong's army was about to arrive in Yanming City, Tsar Vasily IV of the Rakshasa Kingdom faced this situation and had to ask the returning commander Kopinshuysky:

"The main army of the Orientals has arrived, can you take their castle before they arrive, and kill all the Orientals in the Yenisei River?"

Kopinshuisky clasped his palms in front of his chest and possessed them, and said with a dejected face:

"Back to Your Majesty, we really can't do it."

"Our army has been tired from besieging the city for too long because of leaving their hometown, and these Orientals have really good firearms, and they can even have the help of a small sun that is particularly bright, and it seems that there are gods helping them, giving them a lot of small suns at night, so this also makes our army even less confident, so, although they only have hundreds of soldiers, we can't destroy them!"

"Now, I am afraid that it is impossible to surrender, maybe we should negotiate with them, determine the border, and jointly divide this continent, to see if they have the intention of continuing to invade the east." (End of chapter)